Company Growth (employees)
GitHub was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, US
Key People at GitHub
Chris Wanstrath
Co-Founder / CEO
Mike Taylor
CFO
PJ Hyett
Co-Founder / COO
Julio Avalos
Chief Business Officer
GitHub Office Locations
GitHub has an office in San Francisco
San Francisco, US (HQ)
88 Colin P Kelly Jr St
GitHub Data and Metrics
Summary Metrics
Founding Date | 2008 |
Total Funding | $350 m |
Time since last funding | 2 months |
Investors | Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) |
GitHub's latest valuation is reported to be $2 b.
GitHub Financial Metrics
GitHub's revenue was reported to be $98 m in Sep, 2016
USD
Revenue (Sep, 2016) | 98 m |
Market valuation | 2 b |
| USD | Y, 2016 |
|---|---|
Revenue/Employee | 151.5 k |
GitHub Operating Metrics
GitHub's Users was reported to be 9 m in 2015
| Y, 2015 | |
|---|---|
Users | 9 m |
GitHub's employees are reported to be approximately 36% female and 64% male.
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Traffic Overview of GitHub
GitHub Online and Social Media Presence
GitHub News and Updates
August 16, 2017
GitHub’s new embedded code snippets make it easier to reference specific lines of code
Coding can be a solitary process at times, but on larger projects collaboration is often the key to success. That’s why code-hosting repository GitHub has announced a neat new tool designed to help developers reference specific pieces of code they’re working on with other members of the team. All yo…
July 31, 2017
GitHub goes down — and takes developer productivity with it
GitHub, the service that is still pretty much the de facto standard for managing source code, is suffering from a major outage today. Sometime around 9:30am PT this morning, users started to experience issues with the service and weren’t able to check in new code and make pull requests.
While the c…
July 21, 2017
Facebook, GitHub, and the Ford Foundation donate $300,000 to bug bounty program for internet infrastructure
The Internet Bug Bounty (IBB), a not-for-profit bug bounty program backed by such tech companies as Facebook and Microsoft, revealed that it has received three $100,000 donations from Facebook, an existing donor, and new investors GitHub and the Ford Foundation. Founded in 2013, the IBB provides fin…
July 07, 2017
GitHub now lets you automatically request reviews from code owners when you make a change
GitHub has announced a new feature that makes it easier to identify which people need to review changes that have been made to code in a repository. Using code owners, you can define specific teams or individuals that are responsible for a piece of code so that when you make a pull request the relev…
June 27, 2017
GitHub declares every Friday open source day
EXCLUSIVE: GitHub wants to help more people become open source contributors with a new initiative called Open Source Friday. As the name implies, the program encourages companies to set aside time at the end of the week for their employees to work on open source projects. It’s designed to bolster th…
June 19, 2017
The NSA (yes, that NSA) has a Github account now
The National Security Agency is amongst the most secretive of the US’ intelligence agencies. It employs genius-level coders and mathematicians in order to break codes, gather information on adversaries, and defend the country against digital threats. Unsurprisingly, the NSA has always to preferred t…